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Friday 26 March 2021 11.00 - 12.15
D-9 SPA04 Networks and Textual Analysis
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Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Douwe Zeldenrust
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Raphael Fuhrer : Modelling Historical Accessibilities Based on Digitised Historical Networks
The aim of this research is to calculate and model historical accessibility in Western Europe back to 1500 in several time steps. The definition of accessibility is the number of points of interest at a location (for example population in a municipality) weighted by the costs to reach the location ... (Show more)
The aim of this research is to calculate and model historical accessibility in Western Europe back to 1500 in several time steps. The definition of accessibility is the number of points of interest at a location (for example population in a municipality) weighted by the costs to reach the location – travel time is used to express costs. This means, an estimation of travel speed between different points in space at a given time in the past is needed to calculate travel-time-based accessibility. This information is based on a time-space model of historical travel times, which are estimated based on (first) digitised networks from historical post and travel maps, (second) on a digital elevation model, (third) on information on historical transport means and travel speeds from literature. This contribution will briefly show the method of spatially exact reconstruction of historical transport networks and mainly cover the modelling part of historical travel time, least cost path, and subsequently accessibility. The models are applied to central Western Europe for the time 1500 until today. Accessibility improvement is generally connected to increased productivity and urbanisation. (Show less)

Ian Gregory : Newspapers and Geographical Text Analysis: Examples from the UK
One of the major challenges facing Historical Geographers working in the digital era is how to unlock and analyse the geographical information held in large digital textual corpora. Newspaper corpora provide a good example of these – they are frequently contain many hundreds of millions of words of text that ... (Show more)
One of the major challenges facing Historical Geographers working in the digital era is how to unlock and analyse the geographical information held in large digital textual corpora. Newspaper corpora provide a good example of these – they are frequently contain many hundreds of millions of words of text that both reflected and shaped the public opinion of the day. Within this, there is information on both what and where newspaper editors felt was important to their readers. Geographical Text Analysis is a set of techniques that helps us to understand these issues. It works on the principle that place-names can be automatically identified in a text and allocated to a coordinate. From here, analysis of the words near to the place-name can be used to identify the themes that are associated with that place-name. From here, using a combination of techniques from spatial analysis and corpus linguistics, we can begin to understand the geographies within the text. This paper explores these issues based on a range of examples drawn from digital collections of British newspapers. (Show less)

Maelle Le Roux : Corpus Linguistics and History of Representations: an Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Capuchin Annual (1930-1977)
The Capuchin Annual was an Irish periodical published between 1930 and 1977 in Dublin by the Capuchin Franciscans, a male Roman Catholic order. It was first published as a religious periodical, to promote the missions of the Capuchin order, but it soon took a more literary turn and became a ... (Show more)
The Capuchin Annual was an Irish periodical published between 1930 and 1977 in Dublin by the Capuchin Franciscans, a male Roman Catholic order. It was first published as a religious periodical, to promote the missions of the Capuchin order, but it soon took a more literary turn and became a major cultural periodical of its time. It is known for its nationalist views, and scholars have widely used its 1942 and 1966 Easter Rising commemorative edition. It was digitised in 2016.
This paper will focus on the interdisciplinary methods used to analyse representations of Irish nationalist figures using the digital version of the periodical. It will analyse the advantages and risks of using digital humanities methods drawing from history of representations, cultural history, corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, and it will underline the new possibilities in cultural history rendered possible by the technological advances. This paper will argue that the combination of various methods, or triangulation, is preferable in digital history, and especially in the case of cultural history. (Show less)

Zef Segal : From a Local Periodical to a Global Enterprise: Ha-Me'asef, 1896-1914
This paper deals with the gradual spatial expansion of the international rabbinical network of writers in the Jerusalem-based periodical Ha-Me`asef during the years 1896-1914. The periodical, which was established by Rabbi Ben-Zion Abraham Koenka in 1896, was exceptional since it aspired to reach beyond the Jerusalem social circle, from where ... (Show more)
This paper deals with the gradual spatial expansion of the international rabbinical network of writers in the Jerusalem-based periodical Ha-Me`asef during the years 1896-1914. The periodical, which was established by Rabbi Ben-Zion Abraham Koenka in 1896, was exceptional since it aspired to reach beyond the Jerusalem social circle, from where it originated, and become the center of a global communication network. At its apex, some of the leading rabbinical figures in Palestine, the Middle-East, Europe and America became active writers. This paper will describe the historical processes (social, cultural and personal) that led to the geographical expansion of the circle of writers, as well as the effects of the physical space on this expansion.
The journal wished to take apart the borders of the isolated spatial unit, in this case Jerusalem, and suggest in its place a new perception of "place", which is part of a relational and trans-local network. By using methodologies from digital humanities, such as geographic mapping (GIS) and network mapping (SNA) I will show the differences between a noticeable spatial expansion of the network and the concealed spatial divides that still separated between geographical regions, such as the Levant and western Europe. In addition, by using digital tools I identify social groups among the participating rabbis, and ongoing changes in the internal hierarchy of the contemporary rabbinical centers, as they were reflected in the periodical. The paper shows that the success of the transnational network relied on the decline of Jerusalem as its center. (Show less)



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